As I said in my initial post, Frogboy gets paid to work on this game. If he doesnt like his job, he can find a new one.
As the CEO of the publishing company, Stardock, Frogboy himself doesn't get paid to work on the game. This was not his job, nad it never was. In fact, no one at Stardock was requried to do any work at all. They chose to do so, and recieved no additional money or benefits for doing it. If anything, the only thing they received was insults and an angry community. Frogboy also doesn't get paid to post Journals and keep the community informed of what's happening behind the scenes. He doesn't get paid to take time out of the little things he does like, ya know, running his multi-million dollar company to attempt to provide the kind of 1 on 1 interaction every other gaming community in the world screams for. He did this out of the kindess of his heart and because of his drive and passion for his job. And people like you tore him and his company down for it. That's why you make the communtiy worse, and that's why I told - not asked - told you to leave. People like you are not welcome here.
If he doesnt want to ever go onto the forums, fine. I know he's creative enough to have a vision for this game, and how it should work. However, if this is his vision, it sucks. If it isnt, then find a better way to implement it. Giving up on it only burns his customers, and makes his games more and more like the crap EA releases.
As the CEO of the publishing company, Frogboy has no direct control over the game. At all. In any way. This isn't his vision. The game is not a product of an idea from the CEO of Stardock. In fact, the game was well into production at Gas Powered Games long before Stardock was even involved in the project. Your complete lack of understanding on this point pretty much negates anything you have to say on these forums. However, I'd also like to point out that Frogboy is still going to provide the information posted on these forums to the Developers and changes will still be made. All of the items promised will still be delivered upon. We're simply no longer going to get the amazing level of interaction we had. Thanks to people like you.
Many things could be done to the comunity to make it better. DG has a built in reward system in favor points that could be used as leverage against people that ragequit, and abuse. I'm sure a filter system could be put in that takes favor away for cussing. Make quitters lose favor, or items. Relic tracks quits, and drophacks and gives each player a score based on these. A few bad connections wont hurt you, but constantly leaving games will. DG could have a system like this implemented. It could even go as far as to temp ban a player after a certain number of drops/etc. A community based system like Games for windows has could be tied to Impulse, where a player in game with you could issue a complaint (This could also be done via website). that way, constant abusers would get negative feedback and players wont choose to play with them. They could implement a game history list for each player, saving the last 10 games. This would help eliminate premades from hosting and bashing noobs(I've seen enough of these) As it is now, its hard enough to see a players history.(I cant alt tab, it crashes every time).
I'd like to mark this entire paragraph as Exhibit A. Games for Windows provides the same service Impulse does, or will. They won't ever be tied together. The sheer amount of work that would be requried for this 'solution' would negate any kind of profits either Stardock or Gas Powered Games would see from Demigod. Your attitude and expectations need a reality check. These massive, sweeping changes are so far fetched that no company could ever deliver on them, and then you feel the need to insult people when they don't. Also, the stat keeping and displaying features and in-game displaying of people's records is already in the works, and if you bothered to read any of the posts Frogboy made before people like you drove him away you'd have already known that.
Demigod was released in a horribly messy state. Stardock and GPG admits this. Brad and crew worked extremely hard to fix this problem. I commend them on that. However, if I sold you a broken monitor on Ebay, then offered to pay to have someone fix it for you when you complained, is that better then if I just sold you a good monitor in the first place? Of course, everyone would rather just have a working product in the first place.
I'd like to address this comment with a quote you might recognise.
I paid as much as you did for the game.
This quote is also true for me. And you don't see me whining like an annoying child about how their game doesn't work the way they think it should. The game I purchased didn't work correctly at release, and neither did anyone elses. However, it works now.
If you're still within the valid time frame for obtaining a refund, I'd recommend you get one. If you're not within that window, then I can only summise that the game couldn't be too bad. Either way, your complaining because you have an avenue to do so and something to direct your pointless ramblings towards - not because you have something meaningful to say that others should read. Don't confuse one with the other.
Support after the initial network/connection issues has been average. Its not EA bad, but its not groundbreakingly good either. I hear in the future new DGs will be released, and maybe new maps too. When those come, and depending on their price, I might change my mind on Stardocks support. Until then, and as of now, I stand by my comment that support of Demigod has been average. If Frogboy really has cut ties with Demigod, then support will only get worse.
I'd like to mark this paragraph as Exhibit B. If you believe that the support we have seen here is 'average' then I feel no company could ever live up to your expectations because they're completely unrealistic. If you want to see 'average' support, head over to the Resident Evil 4 PC Port forums. The game was released without a lighting engine. This was later added in with the one and only patch the game ever received, and several of the crashes and bugs were also corrected. This is average support. What Stardock has provided to us thus far is the example other companies should follow, however when people like you clog up the forums complaining how even this grand effort is 'average' it's fairly easy to see why they simply don't bother. People like you make this community, and every other online community, worse. And you have provided Exhibits A and B proving this so.
No more jokes, no more moral statements - in all seriousness and fairness; just leave. You're not welcome here.
